Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 14:23:36 -0500
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RUPPERT AND FITTS CITED AS SOURCES IN NEW MAINSTREAM BOOK BY KEVIN PHILLIPS ON THE BUSH DYNASTY

Lord, I hope this doesn't mean that we've become part of the establishment!

Someone called the office the other day and said that we had to rush out and get Kevin Phillips' new book American Dynasty, a scathing and penetrating analysis of the Bush dynasty. Both I and FTW's good friend, former Assistant HUD Secretary Catherine Austin Fitts had been mentioned in it.

Phillips, a ubiquitous TV and radio political commentator is the author of nine books and a regular contributor to The Los Angeles Times, Harper's and TIME. He's also a lifelong Republican.

We got a hold of a copy quickly and I halfway expected to see something along the lines of what David Corn of The Nation had done to me in a multitude of papers around the US and Canada about eighteen months ago. Would I be depicted wearing a beanie with a propeller? Would I be called the arch conspiracy theorist of all times? Would Fitts be portrayed as a flying nun on a mission from God with a dollar sign halo? My skin has been thickened by the last two and half years. I was ready for anything.

Almost.

On page 149 Phillips used three quotes to set up a chapter called The Enron-Halliburton Administration. The first was a quote from Robert Bryce's best seller on Enron, Pipe Dreams. The second quote was from Robert Ebel of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. And the third quote, which set the tone for the chapter was from… me!

"It is clear that everywhere there is oil there is Brown and Root [Halliburton]. But increasingly, everywhere there is war or insurrection there is Brown and Root also. From Bosnia and Kosovo, to Chechnya, to Rwanda, to Burma, to Pakistan, to Laos, to Vietnam, to Indonesia, to Iran, to Libya to Mexico to Colombia, Brown and Root's traditional operations have expanded from heavy construction to include the provision of logistical support for the U.S. military."

Michael C. Ruppert, From The Wilderness, 2000

Shocked, I looked for what Phillips had to say about Fitts. It was on page 170.

"One maverick, politically experienced Washington investment banker Catherine Austin Fitts, concluded that the Bush administration did manage a late 2001 Enron bailout of sorts by failing to seize control of all the documents in the case, in effect allowing extensive shredding by Enron and accountants Arthur Andersen alike, and permitting the January 2002 sale of EnronOnline, the company's trading vehicle, to the Union Bank of Switzerland, a major Enron creditor. That sale may have caused the information needed to explain key portions of what happened to pass under restrictive Swiss law."

If this keeps up I may have to change the name From The Wilderness to Behind Enemy Lines.

MR

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LIEUTENANT GENERAL DANIEL JAMES III

Lieutenant General Daniel James III is the Director, Air National Guard, Arlington, Virginia. As Director, he is responsible for formulating, developing and coordinating all policies, plans and programs affecting the more than 104,000 Air National Guard members in more than 1,841 units throughout the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Virgin Islands.

General James earned his commission as a distinguished graduate of the University of Arizona’s Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps program in June 1968 and received his regular commission as a second lieutenant. He is a command pilot with more than 4,000 hours in fighter and trainer aircraft. He is a combat veteran with over 300 missions in Vietnam and the recipient of two Distinguished Flying Crosses. He completed two tours of active duty in Southeast Asia, during which he served as a forward air controller and F-4 Phantom aircraft commander. General James was appointed to his current position on June 2002.

EDUCATION:

1968 Bachelor of arts degree in psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz.
1981 Air Command & Staff College
1992 National Security Management Course

ASSIGNMENTS:

1. June 1968 - June 1969, student, undergraduate pilot, Williams Air Force Base, Ariz.
2. June 1969 - August 1970, forward air controller, Cam Ranh Bay Air Base, Vietnam
3. August 1970 - July 1972, squadron instructor pilot, Williams Air Force Base, Ariz.
4. July 1972 - February 1973, squadron flight training class commander, Williams Air Force Base, Ariz.
5. February 1973 - December 1973, Headquarters Air Force air operations staff officer, Headquarters United States Air Force, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C.
6. December 1973 - June 1974, USAF conversion training course, George Air Force Base, Calif.
7. June 1974 - May 1975, squadron assistant flight commander, Udorn Republic of Thailand Air Force Base, Thailand
8. May 1975 - August 1976, squadron pilot, Nellis Air Force Base, Nev.
9. August 1976 - September 1978, squadron flight commander, Nellis Air Force Base, Nev.
10. September 1978 - September 1979, group weapons tactics officer, 149th Tactical Fighter Group, Kelly Air Force Base, Texas
11. September 1979 - June 1981, group pilot, 182nd Tactical Fighter Squadron, Kelly Air Force Base, Texas
12. June 1981 - March 1982, unit pilot, 182nd Tactical Fighter Squadron, Kelly Air Force Base, Texas
13. March 1982 - December 1983, unit commander, 182nd Tactical Fighter Squadron, Kelly Air Force Base, Texas
14. December 1983 - October 1988, commander A flight, 182nd Tactical Fighter Squadron, Kelly Air Force Base, Texas
15. October 1988 - October 1989, pilot, C flight, 182nd Tactical Fighter Squadron, Kelly Air Force Base, Texas
16. October 1989 - June 1990, assistant officer-in-charge command post, 149th Tactical Fighter Group, Kelly Air Force Base, Texas
17. June 1990 - December 1992, officer-in-charge command post, 149th Tactical Fighter Group, Kelly Air Force Base, Texas
18. December 1992 - December 1994, Vice Commander, 149th Tactical Fighter Wing, Kelly Air Force Base, Texas
19. December 1994 - November 1995, Operations Group Commander, 149th Operations Group, Kelly Air Force Base, Texas
20. November 1995 - June 2002, Adjutant General, Headquarters, Texas National Guard, Austin, Texas
21. June 2002 - present, Director, Air National Guard, Arlington, Va.

FLIGHT INFORMATION:

Rating: Command Pilot
Flight hours: More than 4,000 hours
Aircraft flown: T-39, T-37, T-38. O-1E, F-5E, F-4 and F-16

MAJOR AWARDS AND DECORATIONS:

Legion of Merit
Distinguished Flying Cross with one oak leaf cluster
Meritorious Service Medal
Air Medal with six oak leaf clusters
Air Force Commendation Medal
Air Force Achievement Medal
Air Force Presidential Unit Citation
Air Force Outstanding Unit Award with valor device
Combat Readiness Medal with five devices
National Defense Service Medal with one device
Vietnam Service Medal with four devices
Air Force Longevity Service Award with six devices
Armed Forces Reserve Medal
Small Arms Expert Marksmanship Ribbon
Air Force Training Ribbon
Vietnam Gallantry Cross with one device
Vietnam Campaign Medal

OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS:

Distinguished Graduate, Air Force ROTC, University of Ariz., 1968
Black United Fund of Texas Garvey-Woodson Award, 1995
Texas STARBASE Executive Advisory Board Outstanding Service Award, 1995-1996
Central Texas Combined Federal Campaign Community Service Award, 1997-1998
Chairman, Greater Austin Quality Council, 1998-1999
Commendation for Military Service, Joint Session of the Texas Legislature, 1999
Selective Service System Honored Patriot Award, 1998 & 1999
The Air Force Association-Texas Benjamin D. Foulois First Flight Award, 1997
Board of Directors, Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce
South Carolina, The Palmetto Patriot Award, 1999

PUBLISHED ARTICLES:

Article for the National Guard Review Publication, “Military State Partnerships: A winning Relationship for All”, 1997

EFFECTIVE DATES OF PROMOTION:

Second Lieutenant Jun 6, 1968
First Lieutenant Jun 5, 1971
Captain Jun 5, 1975
Major Jun 5, 1982
Lieutenant Colonel Mar 19, 1987
Colonel Dec 14, 1992
Brigadier General Sep 25, 1996
Major General Oct 10, 1998
Lieutenant General Jun 3, 2002

(Current as of July 2002)

The date of publication indicated on this biography reflects the most recent update. It does not necessarily reflect the date of printing.

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CNN. Friday, February 13, 2004 Posted: 8:28 AM EST (1328 GMT)
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/02/12/elec04.prez.bush.texas.records/

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(CNN) -- A former officer in the Texas National Guard said Thursday he once overheard a conversation in which there was a request to sanitize President Bush's Guard records during Bush's tenure as Texas governor.

Soon afterward, he said, he saw Bush's Guard performance review in a trash can. Bush served in the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War era.

Retired Lt. Col. Bill Burkett, who was then an adviser to the Texas adjutant general, who in that capacity serves as the commander of the state's National Guard, made the allegations.

He said that in 1997 he overheard Joe Allbaugh -- who was Bush's chief of staff at the time -- ask Guard commander Maj. Gen. Daniel James to gather Bush's files and "make sure there wasn't anything there that would embarrass the governor."

Allbaugh reacted angrily to Burkett's charges, calling them "hogwash" and "absolute garbage." Allbaugh, who went on to direct the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the Bush administration, said he doesn't even know who the "goober" is, referring to Burkett.

James denied any reports were altered, according to The New York Times.

Burkett said that the day after he overhead Allbaugh's request, he heard James convey a directive to the state services officer to gather Bush's files and go through them. Then, about 10 days later, he said, he came across "files on a table."

"But I also saw at the edge of that table a roughly 15-gallon, old metal waste can. At the top of that were several pages, 20 to 40 pages approximately," Burkett said on CNN's "Paula Zahn Now."

"I glanced down at the top of those documents. In ink was the word 'Bush, George W., 1 Lt.' This was a performance report. I was right at the trash can. I filtered through the top five or six pages in that, and they were all copies and originals of old performance documents and pay records for 'Bush, George W., 1 Lt."

Burkett said he was disheartened after the incident. "All of those efforts, I felt, had been -- had undermined our cause," said Burkett, who had worked to make the Texas National Guard more efficient.

"I'm not going to get in the mud. You know, this has become a political football," he told CNN. "I'm here to tell you the same facts that I said, and I reported, and I have worked through the state legislative system in the state of Texas," Burkett said.

"This is no new allegation, this is no new case, and this is no new fact. The fact is the same today as it was in 1997. And God is my pilot, and God is in my foxhole."

Burkett's claims about Bush's records were also made in a 1998 letter to a Democratic congressman, according to the Times. In the letter, Burkett complained that his battle over medical care with the Guard led to his being hospitalized for depression.

White House communications director Dan Bartlett, who as an aide to then-Gov. Bush handled the records in 1990s, on Wednesday called Burkett's allegations an "outrageously false statement," according to the Times.

White House officials referred to Burkett as an unhappy former guardsman who had a falling out with his superiors, the paper said.

Burkett is quoted in an upcoming book, "Bush's War for Re-election," by James Moore. Moore said Burkett's "reputation is impeccable."

"And we know that the president's record in terms of his grounding as a pilot is missing. The final points totals are missing. Any medical records are missing. And a retirement statement, in terms of the points he earned, is missing," Moore said.

Questions about Bush's Guard service have intensified in recent weeks after Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe said Bush was AWOL, or absent without leave, from his Air National Guard service during a period from May 1972 to May 1973 when he was transferred from Texas to Alabama so he could work on a Senate political campaign.

The White House has fought back, releasing records it says prove Bush fulfilled his requirements and was honorably discharged. Most recently, the White House released a document showing that Bush got a dental exam at the Dannelly Air National Guard Base in Alabama on January 6, 1973. (Full story)

"This again shows he was there, he served in Alabama. He was honorably discharged," said White House press secretary Scott McClellan.

Burkett's allegations were on some Internet web sites just before the 2000 presidential election but were largely unreported by conventional media, according to USA Today.

But questions have lingered since that year's presidential campaign, after the Boston Globe uncovered a May 1973 evaluation by Bush's commander stating that the first lieutenant had not been seen during the previous year.

CNN's Suzanne Malveaux contributed to this report.

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